News & Views Celebrating 20 years of the Ernies Bob Ellis, Shane Warne, Tony Abbott and a group of footballers joined 400 women at the fabulous Ernie Awards for sexist remarks at NSW Parliament House last night.
News & Views The undeclared war on women The entries for this year’s Ernie awards for sexist remarks were the worst ever, according to convenor Dr Meredith Burgmann.
News & Views The Ernie Awards might be changing public behaviour, but they’ve not run out of booing yet Have the Ernie Awards become a victim of their own success? Has the campaign to shame public sexism had the effect of actually reducing sexist behaviour? Ernie Awards convenor Meredith Burgmann raised this possibility last night when announcing the Judicial Silver Ernie, usually a goldmine of material – who could forget “rougher than usual handling”? “The Judicial Ernie used to always win the Gold Ernie because judges just said terrible things.
